Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/16/2016 18:27 -0500
Americans are fat. They are so fat very few would even bother to click on a hyperlink in this article explaining how fat they are, so instead we will present an animated chart showing the severity of the US obesity problem over the past 30 years.
Cartoons aside, here are the facts: today two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese. Half are afflicted with chronic conditions like diabetes or high blood pressure that can often be prevented with better diets, but aren’t and as a result debt-funded healthcare costs have exploded, and while this chronic obesity has made pharma companies richer beyond their wildest dreams, it means future US healthcare spending and welfare obligations are unsustainable.
America didn’t get this way overnight. The average calories available to the average American increased 25 percent, to more than 2500, between 1970 and 2010, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. There was no extra meal added to the day, instead an evolution in the type of foods Americans eat led to steady growth in calories.
Added fats and grains account for a growing share of total caloric intake. These two categories, which include oils and fats in processed foods and flour in cereals and breads, made up about 37 percent of our diet in 1970. By 2010, they were 46 percent—a larger share of the growing pie. One of the main factor: cost; the increasingly more caloric foods become progressively cheaper and more affordable. The result: more of the lower and middle classes gravitated toward it, leading to the epidemic shown above.
Here, courtesy of Bloomberg, are seven charts showing the detail behind America’s troubling obesity trend.
First, this is where America’s calories come from.
Cheese is replacing milk.
A lot more fat goes into our foods.
Calories from wheat, rice, and corn have increased. This includes refined grains like white bread that provide calories but are stripped of much of the nutrients in whole grains.
There are some indications that Americans are changing their diets to become healthier. For example, we’re swapping red meat for chicken.
And though corn syrup boomed since the 1970s, the total amount of sweeteners we eat has declined. That’s partly because Americans are drinking less soda.
These positive changes haven’t negated the overall increase in calories on our plates. More than two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, compared to less than half in the 1970s.
The government’s dietary guidelines are simple: “Almost all people in the United States could benefit from shifting choices to better support healthy eating patterns.” Right, now if only the government would also subsidize this healthy – which means more expensive – eating. We won’t hold our breath: after all the massive pharma lobby would generate far less profits for its clients if US obesity were to sharply decline as a result of someone doing the right thing.
So until something does take place to shock the US out of its fatty momentum, here is Family Guy.
Fat fuckers. Soda, TV and the internet are the evil trinity.
people do weigh more, we can all see it as we live our lives. its predominantly the food, anyone who knows how to get gain physical excellence will tell you that nutrition and what you put into your body is the most important aspect, then recovery/sleep and often last what you do in the gym. too many people think they can go on a stairmaster for 15 mins, burn 100 calories and go eat a bakers dozen from D&D. They don’t understant insulin resistance, the ketogenic state and what the food they eat actually does.
The biggest issue is people are predominantly told to do stupid shit (constant cardio instead of strength training) and told to eat lots of carbs and grains and limit meat/protein and fat. They “learn” these things and the work required to unteach them and teach the truth can be incredibly frustrating.
Short attention spans, expecting immediate results and a horrendous lack of discipline are also to blame.
the only caveat i will pull is the metric for obesity is typically the BMI which works as a general measure for large populations but once you look at individuals it is utter bullshit.
i had to fill out a health survey for my healthcare plan and due to my BMI being 29.0 I need to talk to a “health coach”. I can’t wait to talk to this “expert” and have him explain to me that i am “overweight” due to weighing 225lbs at 6’2″ and his “advise” after i cite my activity and strength levels, the understanding i have of nutrition etc…
In my 30 years as an expat in Asia I have seen a similar explosion in physical size. Worryingly, this is most noticeable in children. Graphically, I suspect there is a close correlation with the explosion of western fast food outlets.
We get less exercise today, the all day long kind of exercise we used to get at work when we actually did physical work for our living.
Less constant exercise means less muscle activity and less muscle activity means less muscle.
Muscle burns more calories than fat.
Combine that with diets consisting almost entirely of processed food and you have a recipe for obesity.
Toss in lots and lots of MSG and HFCS and you bring that recipe to fullness of its potential.
There’s more to it of course, like the time of day you consume the majority of your calories, but that is the largest part of it.
Harry,
Most professional football players would rate as obese. Strength training or just working physically hard is crucial although I prefer running and mixing in push ups, pull ups and sit ups. At 53 I am not a specimen, but I am in good shape at 6’2″ 195. I can run 5 miles in 45 minutes, not bad for an old fart who has had three back operations and can still drink with the best of them. People need to understand the cutting out excess carbs will make it so much easier to lose weight and keep off the excess pounds. My wife does Weight Watchers and even they have modified there program with less emphasis low fat carbs (often sweetened) and putting more protein in the mix. If people could understand that once they get their body to a ketogenic state the fat will literally melt off.
People are much more sedentary today, kids and adults. I work in front of a computer all day, but every time I use the bathroom I go down one flight of stairs then up three and repeat on the way back. By the end of the day you will find you have done 20 plus flights of stairs. At least twice a week I will take my lunch break to walk 3 to 4 miles even in the winter. It’s simple things like this that make all the difference.
Bob.
Harry P, I feel your pain. The whole time I was an Officer, I was in the Fat Boy program. I could weigh 190 max and was right on it every Monday morning at weigh-in. I worked out with 100 lb dumb-bells, could easily do 100 full push-ups etc. I remember standing at attention because of it before a Full Bird with a pot belly and wishing I could challenge him to a fight and kick his fat ass.
Agreed, basic movement is often what is lacking. with co-workers we walk 3 miles almost every day over lunch (a pace to do it in 45mins) and this is important because we all spned the majority of our time in seats at desks. it is a great way to break up the day. and as we get to freezing temps i am learning who teh pussies are.
I used to run often but found it caused problems. i’ve found that strength training is the most practical for maintaining muscle, strength, flexibility, bone density and tendon health along with keeping healthy t levels (super important for men).
yeah pro athletes often have those types of builds as well but once they aren’t performing anymore tehy do get truly obese (and bankrupt as well).
Don’t feel bad for me, I am going to have fun with this expert when i tell him eventhough i am “overweight” at 35 years old i bench 275, squat 365 and deadlift 405, ran a 5k in under 26 mins in october and have about 15% BF. i look forward to talking to this coach and receiving a pass from further scrutiny and if he/she is mildly obnoxious i’ll make them feel like shit by making it clear i am better qualified to do their job while this is essentially a hobby for me.
I think the underlying issue is people don’t have goals, tehy don’t know what tehy want and lack teh discipline to chase and achive it. people are just idly floating thru life embracing mediocrity. Essentially waiting to die and they live (a loose version of the word) and eat accordingly.
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T4C,
that is truly pathetic, those parents should be charged with child abuse.
the only thing that could make this more ridiculous is an expectation that their govt will provide a competent solution.
Harry and robert,
True shit. The BMI is a complete pile of shit. You can’t make up one fucking thing and then cram everyone into it. The Army got into using the BMI when they stole the tables directly from the insurance industry bean counters…
I already related how Daddy had me hitting the free weights pretty seriously for years.
When I was a brand new Private – an E2 – I showed up at my first duty station. Of course, when you’re the FNG, you get every shit job that comes down. I had to unload a deuce full of radio equipment, so I’m slinging around these heavy-ass radios and, to speed things up, I was carrying them two at a time… I didn’t want to fuck up my uniform and catch a rasher of shit from some non-working officer type with a cardboard uniform, so I took off my BDU shirt and folded it neatly on a nearby air conditioning unit…
Our platoon sergeant comes by and sees me slinging these radios… which earned me several nicknames…
Hulk Private.
Ox.
Pack Mule.
If you’re a big guy – over 6 feet – and you strength train, you’re gonna get taped pretty much weekly. Doesn’t matter how good a leader you are. Doesn’t matter how professional and competent you are. Doesn’t matter how strong you are or how dedicated you are. What matters is that you fit neatly into their little cardboard cutout profile – just like the puny guys.
I’m not a runner. Never much good at it, and frankly, I hated running. But, you do what you have to.
As the FNG and a big guy, I got all sorts of shit hung on me in addition to the standard combat load. Spare ammo. Spare batteries. The 60. All sorts of shit. Part of it was a gut check to see when I would break. I never did. I humped that shit as far as they told me, and then some.
Still, I got taped weekly.
Finally, I’m in front of our Captain who was giving me shit about my BMI. Standard threat briefing. He couldn’t give me shit about my PT score, since I was completely rocking that – even with my low run times. I was actually outscoring him. But he decided to shit on my about my BMI.
Whatever.
Couple weeks later, we were practicing movement to contact, react to an ambush, etc. Once again, I had that pig of a 60 and all the bullshit they could hang on me and get away with. Way overloaded.
Our Captain decides it would be all fucking mo-tard HOOAH! if we did this shit in MOPP 4. For those of you who do not know, MOPP 4 means complete chem gear. Boots. Green pickle lookin’ chem suit. Protective mask. Hood. Everything. In addition to all the other shit we had to hump.
A MOPP suit is hot as fuck. The pro mask was designed to keep you alive, not facilitate easy breathing.
So, we’re all suited up in this shit, sweating our balls off, can’t breathe and way overloaded. Now we have to run up this fucking hill in standard 2×2 cover formation, leap frogging each other until we “took the objective”…
Happy to say I fucking rocked it. Even way overloaded and humping that pig of a 60…
Afterwards, they’re doing this AAR thing (after action review) and the fucking Captain says “Who the fuck was on that M60? That dude was a badass!”
I stood up and walked over in front of him with my pig of a M60…
“That was me, sir…”
Just stared at him… DARING that motherfucker to say some shit… I didn’t give a shit at that point… Fuck his desk flying ass…
He just looked at me. He knew. I knew he knew. Neither of us said anything. He just ate his fucking crow and said tightly “Yeah… good job”… then turned and walked off…
Yeah… fuck you, SIR, and your BMI horseshit… The respect of my peers is more important to me than if I fit into your little table or not…
Still got taped weekly – almost for my entire time in the military – 13 years – but nobody gave me shit about it…
Vegetable Oil, Margarine, Wheat Flour and High Fructose Corn Syrup. Cut those out and you won’t be fat. Eat pastured eggs, grass fed meat and butter, raw milk and coconut/olive oil. Maple syrup or raw honey or stevia for sweetener. Organic veggies and fruit. No GMO’s. Those charts say it all.
Some people here “over-think” the reason.
Some “get it”. Not much to add here, except to summarize those who get it. Americans are ft for two reasons;
—- 1) Eat to many calories. (It doesn’t matter what you eat … in terms of weight gain. You can get fat eating jello, if you eat 5,000 calories of it every dy.
—- 2) No exercise. (At a certain age — for me, it seems to have started around 40 — it is virtually impossible to lose weight simply via diet. One MUST exercise. Likewise, NO exercise “routine” can overcome a bad diet.)
Eat a lot less, exercise a lot more.
That’s all there’s too it.
Harry ,you still a fat fuck? How long have you been on a diet fat fuck? Your real problem is gluttony which is a mother Lust…..For he( you ) who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself.( yourself ) … For if we judge ourselves , we would not be judged.1 Corinthians 11:28-29……Got that Harry?.Do not be deceived , God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows,that he will also reap.For he who sows to his flesh ( eats like you do )will reap from his (your ) flesh corruption.*Gal 6:7 ….See Harry , all your fat problems are a direct result of your Sin problems. In other words you are lazy and lustful . Your own selfish , sinful desires are killing you .So glad I could help you Harry.I usually charge 50 bucks for this kind counseling .
I have to agree with Stucky on this one.
How many calories are in 48 pieces of sushi??
Thanks for impeccable advise bb, lol…
I tell you what seriously kicked my ass…
Aerobics.
No shit.
Some derp decided that it would be “a good idea” to have these aerobic trainer chicks come in and have us all do aerobics.
So, there we were… entire company of smelly grunts in PT gear in the gym spread out and talking shit about “this fucking aerobics bullshit” we had to do… like some puny 95 lb females are gonna tell us how to do shit..
Have to tell ya… we got smoked. All of us. Halfway though that aerobics bullshit, our dudes were falling the fuck out… myself included. And those puny 95 lb females were laughing at us. I got my own taste of crow that day. All of us did. With a big heapin’ side dish of humble pie. We thought we were “in shape” – half of us were ready to run and find an O2 tank somewhere…
We got our asses handed to us. And NOBODY talked about it afterwards… and that was the absolute last time we had any aerobics chicks leading PT…
Doesn’t mean they could do our jobs better than we could. Means they could do that aerobics shit better than we could… it did give me a different perspective though.
Just thought I would put that out there…
Billy,
Yer need ter stop watching Gomer Pyle and takin acid. Yer so gawd dammed fat if yer ever were in the military yer name woulda been something like Private Hernia er Cap’n Fatass er somethin like that. The last time I saw you run was when yer motorized shopping cart got too hot from hauling yer morbidly obese anus around Walmart and caught fire. Yer BMI is somethin like ‘110 percent yeasty belly button hole’ and I don’t know why yer got spread these embarrassingly delusional lies about yerself, so shut yer yapper and git me some Crisco.
Shitballs uh mercy Billy yer such a gawd dammed retard. I ain’t talkin slobberin poop smearing retard like Billy Jr, I’m talking loser/braggart type retard. Good gawd Billy dig yerself outter this hole of self delusion – we need more Dr Phil and less Jerry Springer in our lives hon. Sometimes I just want ter hide yer bag uh meth and watch you go bonkers, good gawd uh mighty.
I hope you fucking die of plague.
Seriously. In the most lengthy, painful way possible.
There’s not many fuckers I hate on this earth, but you are one of them.
Die.
That aint very nice Billy, but it’s par fer the coarse when it comes ter uh piece uh shit like yerself. I turded out yer only offspring and yew ain’t even grateful. I lance the boils on yer anus, even when they’re super infected. I rub crisco on yer balls when they’re swollen from gout. What else kin I do? I’d leave yer ass if I could git off this couch.
How many years it’s been since you could git it up Billy? 10? 15? Yew keep sayin we’ll save up fer uh viagra but then you always blow it all on Krispy Kreme and Monster sodas. It’s shameful how yer only always thinking uh yerself. Good gawd I wish I could go back ter before I said I would marry yer. 13 is too young fer that shit.
Yeah, it’s a complete mystery.
1) Don’t eat processed foods. Processed foods are designed to retard spoilage, that means in the wrapper or in your gut. Saturated with chemicals to increase shelf life, not promote digestion.
2) Labor. Human beings used to do this stuff called “work” where they would actually move their bodies using their “legs” and physically alter their environment using their “hands” and these exertions would cause their heart rate to increase, their metabolism to run at a higher pace and burn excess calories and even convert them into muscle mass.
3) Eating seasonally. Certain foods ripen and mature at specific times of the year. Animals- including humans- would consume these foods in their raw state, or at least while they were fresh. Some of these contained elements and vitamins not found in other foods or at other times of the year when living organisms need them the most. By eating seasonally living organisms feed themselves the nutrients required during the exact time of the year when they need them most. It’s as if Nature intended for us to eat this way.
4) Sated vs Full. You can eat until you’ve had enough or you can eat until there isn’t room for anymore. You know why they sell so much Zantac? Because so many people will eat until the food is backing up in their esophagus. That’s not necessary. You eat until you have sated your bodies requirement for nutrition, not until the box or bag or tub or container is empty.
5) Don’t eat processed foods. So important it’s worth mentioning again. They cost more per calorie, they don’t digest well, they’re packed with HFCS and salt and who knows how many additional chemicals that the human body doesn’t need.
And the commercial with the fat lady. Is that supposed to shame normal people into accepting morbid obesity as the norm? Because it’s not working. People that are that fat are gross, like someone who doesn’t wash or take care of hygiene- it’s nasty. I’m totally okay with people doing whatever they want with their own body, mutilating it, disfiguring it, cutting healthy parts off, scribbling childish scrawls on it, puncturing it, turning it into a big old lard bucket- whatever floats their boat, but you’ll never get me to celebrate it or worship it or salute it or whatever else these misty eyed do gooders insist we do when someone goes off the deep end and turns themselves into a living monster and I definitely don’t think we should have to subsidize their wanton and careless choices when it comes to health care. You’ve got the diabeetus because you’re two hundred pounds overweight? Oh well, better get a second job to pay for the insulin. Need to make payments on your lard scooter because you’re too fat to walk? They still pay for plasma, right?
Not. My. Problem.
I also put a significant amount of blame on the poisons (aka chemicals) that we have been saturated in during the past decades, especially xenoestrogens. These chemicals mimic estrogen and have been shown to increase obesity significantly in adults who were exposed to them while in-utero (besides reducing sperm counts in males).
Look into the research done by Theo and Colburn, published in the book “Our Stolen Future” (also a website) for more details.
Both my wife and I are tub-o-lards and both of my daughters are rail thin because while they eat the same crap everyone else does now, I was a fanatic regarding pesticides, organic foods and cosmetics before and while my wife was pregnant with my children.